_Etymology of "Page"_ (Vol. ix., p. 106.).--_Paggio_ Italian, _page_ French and Spanish, _pagi_ Provençal, is derived by Diez, _Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Romanischen Sprachen_ (Bonn, 1853), p. 249., from the Greek [Greek: paidion]. This derivation is evidently the true one. I may take this opportunity of recommending the above-cited work to all persons who feel an interest in the etymology of the Romance languages. It is not only more scientific and learned, but more comprehensive, than any other work of the kind. L. _Longfellow_ (Vol. ix., p. 174.).--There was a family of the name of Longfellow resident in Brecon, South Wales, about fifty or sixty years ago, who were large landowners in the county; and one of them (Tom Longfellow, alluded to in the lines below) kept the principal inn, "The Golden Lion," in that town. His son occupied a farm a few miles from Brecon, about thirty years ago; and two of his sisters resided in the town. The family was frequently engaged in law suits (perhaps from the _proverbially_ litigious disposition {256} of their Welsh neighbours), and was ultimately ruined. Many of the old inhabitants of that part of the Principality could, no doubt, give a better and fuller account of them. The following lines (not very flattering to the landlord, certainly), said to have been written by a commercial traveller on an inside-window shutter of "The Golden Lion," when Mr. Longfellow was the proprietor, may not be out of place in "N. & Q.:" "Tom Longfellow's name is most justly his due, Long his neck, long his bill, which is very long too; Long the time ere your horse to the stable is led, Long before he's rubbed down, and much longer till fed; Long indeed may you sit in a comfortless room, Till from kitchen, long dirty, your dinner shall come; Long the often-told tale that your host will relate, Long his face whilst complaining how long people eat; Long may Longfellow long ere he see me again,-- Long 'twill be ere I long for Tom Longfellow's inn." C. H. (2) Yesterday I happened to be looking over an old Bristol paper (Sarah Farley's _Bristol Journal_, Saturday, June 11, 1791), and the name of Longfellow, which I had before only known as borne by the poet, caught my eye. At the end of the paper there is a notice in these words: "Advertisements are taken in for this paper by agents in various places, and by Mr. Longfellow, Brecon," &c. HENRY GEO. TOMKINS. Park Lodge, Weston-super-Mare. There is now living at Beaufort Iron Works, Breconshire, a respectable tradesman, bearing the name of Longfellow. He himself is a native of the town of Brecon, as was his father also. But his grandfather was a settler; though from what part of the country this last-named relative originally came, he is unfortunately unable to say. He has the impression, however, that it was from Cornwall or Devonshire. Perhaps this information will partly answer the question of OXONIENSIS. E. W. I.